Comment Re:Intellible units... (Score 1) 87
A Rhode Island is a unit of area. You're looking for football fields.
... no true nerd should ever fall prey to.
... to which no true nerd should ever fall prey.
Just sayin'.
Oh crap.
... no true nerd should ever fall prey to.
... to whom no true nerd should ever fall prey.
Just sayin'.
Wow, Data was in Star Wars 3? Please either turn in your geek card or put on this red shirt.
He didn't say that Data was in Star Wars III. He said that Data was in Star Wars 3!
Of course. Since Star Wars is released in trilogies, and keeping in mind that the episode numbering uses Roman numerals, not Arabic, the obvious numbering scheme (ordered by release date, not in-universe date) is:
So, Data will make an appearance in Star Wars 3, probably episode VIII or IX, after Disney buys the Star Trek franchise. Why else would they hire JJ Abrams to direct Episode VII, but to secretly lay the groundwork for the unifying Wars/Trek movie?
"The U.S. postal service
That explains a lot.
At the end of the day, electrical signals travel over copper at the speed of light (minus minimal overhead) the same as light does through fiber
Wikipedia disagrees with you: “In copper wire, the speed s generally ranges from
Did they also explain to you that 61 of the last 62 mass shootings took place in "gun free zones" ?
Citation, please? Given that USA experiences a mass killing once every 10 days (and a mass shooting once every 15 days), I find it difficult to believe that your statistic is current.
Most American employees work for someone who offers sick leave.
I used to believe that. However, I've recently worked for two fortune-100 companies, and one startup spun off from one of them. In each of these companies, leave is called "PTO" or "paid time off." The idea is that you have a single account for earned time off -- you use it whether you are sick or on vacation. In essence, you are required to use vacation days for *every* sick day.
You mean that A3, A4, A5 and A6 are all the same shape? That's so
... useful.
I really do love living in the USofA, but I friggin hate USian measuring systems.
In Chicago as early as 96, I was taught drivers ed assuming that every car I'd ever used would have it, because it was that fucking common. I doubt even 25% of the population knows how to use non-ABS breaks.
I learned to drive in Illinois in 1979. I doubt 25% of the population then knew how to use non-ABS brakes.
A water pipe that can fill a football stadium in 1 minute flat does no good if it will only dispense half a glass of water a month.
Could you phrase that in the form of an automobile analogy?
8" floppies
Are you forgetting the VAX 11/780's console floppy drive? No VAX would have ever booted without it.
No, tapes sucked but then, as now, expensive dick drives had outstanding longevity.
Best typo today.
AFAIK no PC used an 8 inch disk (please correct me if I'm wrong)
It depends upon your definition of "PC". The Heathkit H-89 used an 8-inch floppy.
Here's a site that posts press releases about embedded Linux devices/SBCs/etc all this time (and has for at least a decade, I believe): http://www.linuxfordevices.com/
They appear to have ceased operation in February of this year.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
